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Today’s businesses generate staggering amounts of data, and learning to get the most value from that data is paramount to success. Just as Amazon Web Services (AWS) has transformed IT infrastructure to something that can be delivered on-demand, scalably, quickly, and cost-effectively, Amazon Redshift is doing the same for data warehousing and big data analytics. Amazon Redshift offers a massively parallel columnar data store that can be spun up in just a few minutes to deal with billions of rows of data at a cost of just a few cents an hour. Organizations choose Amazon Redshift for its affordability, flexibility, and powerful feature set: • Enterprise-class relational database query and management system • Supports client connections with many types of applications, including business intelligence (BI), reporting, data, and analytics tools • Execute analytic queries in order to retrieve, compare, and evaluate large amounts of data in multiple-stage operations

Modern regulation demands connected thinking, leading-practice processes, optimal data management and insightful reporting – all of which makes the finance function the ideal catalyst for change. Read this report to find out: • how to structure a transformation plan and strategy • how to create the optimal team for transformation • what leading companies are doing to drive transformation through regulatory change.

As a strategic partner in your business, you face increasing demands from your line-of-business leaders for new functionality and advanced capabilities, which you must deliver with a constrained IT budget. What could you do to meet these expectations and add value to the business if you could contain costs, increase operational efficiency, and do more with less? You need to overcome several challenges. The cost of software licensing management is rising as a result of maintaining proprietary platforms or legacy technology, making it difficult to modernize your datacenter and migrate to more cost-effective solutions. You’re likely burdened by regulatory compliance mandates, which create enforcement, reporting, and auditing expenses. And, like 67% of IT organizations, your budget is probably shrinking. Red Hat can help. Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® gives you the high-value subscription model, built-in governance processes, and simplified migration path you need to aggressively lower your

Global financial organizations are facing increasing demands from the business for more granularity, transparency, reporting and security. If you’re on the IT side, you know this adds a different set of ‘mores’ to the equation: More duplication, delays, and people. What’s the net-net? More cost and more risk. You can balance the scales to satisfy those demands. And it starts with thinking differently about data management. Our financial services technology experts will explore the implications of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) imperatives. You’ll learn: • Why data is at the heart of an effective and dynamic GRC strategy • Why technological capabilities used to enable standard GRC programs can reduce transparency and prevent you from gaining a holistic view of your data • A new approach to data can provide the business with complete transparency • Review a sample regulatory reporting architecture Stop burning time on tooling — and start building a dynamic GRC strategy that can

In this on-demand webinar from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Sherri Liao of The Hackett Group and Jim Collins of IBM discuss the steps your organization can take to link financial planning to operational decision making more effectively. You’ll hear about: Simplifying and amplifying reporting Optimizing decision-making: Predictive vs. historical analytics Aligning finance and operations Reporting beyond finance to include cross-functional measures of performance The path to building a World-Class finance organization

This guide outlines the five most important marketing metrics every B2B marketer should focus on, to achieve maximum ROI from Marketing Automation software, in addition to optimizing their lead management process

Running a successful firearms and shooting sports retail business offers unique challenges. To achieve growth, you need a software solution that streamlines nearly every aspect of your firearms business—letting you focus on running a more compliant, efficient, and profitable operation. Created in collaboration with Orchid Advisors, Epicor FFL Compliance Manager is a robust, cloud-based system for firearms retailers that seamlessly manages ATF compliance for higher profits and faster growth. This fast, easy-to-use bound book solution can: • Quickly package compliance reports on demand and review bound book activity with dashboards to support ATF inspections • Save time by scanning serial numbers instead of entering them manually • Relieve audit stress thanks to easy access to bound book data and on-demand, ATF-friendly reporting Read on to hear from businesses currently powered by Epicor FFL Compliance solutions.

We all know the wisdom of monitoring familiar key performance indicators (KPIs). Turns, gross margin return on investment (GMROI), sales, inventory measures, and other metrics will tell you how your business is faring—and that’s pretty important if you want to keep your hardware store in business. However, just staying in business isn’t enough in a rapidly evolving retail world, so achieving improved KPI results is essential. In this Epicor eBook, you’ll learn about eight easy-to-use tools that go beyond traditional KPIs to quickly improve business results, including: • Reviewing store-to-store sales • Identifying your top 100 items • Monitoring excess inventory • Viewing items with cost change and no retail change Learn more about these tools, and discover what else you can do to improve your KPI results by downloading this Epicor eBook. Download now and go beyond retail KPIs.

Going forward, CFOs will continue to implement processes and systems to reduce the overall cost of financial reporting while improving accuracy, visibility of data beyond the general ledger, and accessibility at all levels of the organization. In addition, there will continue to be greater demand for more advanced dynamic reporting — including enhanced cost and profitability reporting, rolling forecasts, and zero-based budgeting — in an environment finance teams are comfortable with, such as Excel, so they can work more efficiently.

In the last few years, the demands on the finance department—from real-time reporting to global consolidation—have increased significantly. At the same time, the choices for accounting and financial software have become much more complex. How do you begin to research, evaluate, and select the right software for your business? Download the 2015 Buyer's Guide to Accounting and Financial Software and discover: • Why most financial software systems hinder your ability to get good financial information • The six key questions you need to ask before considering a move to a cloud-based financial solution • Why the process for evaluating software is different for cloud solutions – and the seven SLA must-haves you should get in writing Get all the facts for a successful buying journey!

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) isn’t just about aligning supply and demand. Ultimately, businesses across all industries need to synchronize plans across all functions to strike the right balance between demand, resources and other constraints. Companies are realizing that their use of analytics to help improve decision making needs to evolve beyond just reporting to include machine learning and optimization. Download our latest Q&A now with published author and supply chain expert Mike Watson, and learn how virtually any S&OP decision can benefit from advanced analytics and automation. You’ll get practical advice to help build a strawman, so you can move forward quickly – before your competitors! Read this Executive Brief to know the Top 7 Questions to ask before deploying your Sales and Operations planning.

Marketing automation is a technology solution that helps enable the seeding, creation, nurturing and acceleration of demand among prospects and customers (see the brief “Marketing Automation Platforms Defined”). Given that marketing automation platforms (MAPs) are an essential component of every b-to-b organization’s marketing infrastructure, organizations understand the need for these platforms, as well as their internal need for optimized processes and skills to leverage them. However, while most b-to-b marketers understand the value of lead nurturing, lead scoring/prioritization, program and tactic level reporting, and the SiriusDecisions Demand Waterfall®, they often struggle to operationalize these processes with MAPs, which is why selecting the right MAP is imperative. In this SiriusView, we describe MAP providers’ differences to help organizations identify which MAPs best meet their needs.

Today financial services institutions must meet the standards for data quality attestation by the FFEIC regulators of risk reporting. This paper discusses the platform and domain expertise needed to support the rigorous demands of commercial and retail risk reporting.

Six out of ten contact centers projected to have a cloud-based contact center deployed by the end of 2013. Why? Ultimately, because it will help them be more responsive to their customers, without the prohibitive costs of carrying enough premise-based technology to cover demand spikes. In this concise analysis of two recent contact center executive surveys, Aberdeen Group analysts discuss how cloud-based infrastructure enables contact centers to excel in key activities including center activity reporting, agent performance feedback and more.

Learn how SAP BusinessObjects BI OnDemand offers complete, integrated business intelligence that extends your reporting and analysis of data in the Salesforce application from salesforce.com. This software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution is free to try and requires no dedicated hardware or software installation.

This white paper discusses how enterprise analytics systems can assist provider organizations in building sustainable healthcare systems and achieving their vision for accountable care—from near-term demands for regulatory and quality reporting to transforming care delivery.

In the last few years, the demands on the finance department—from real-time reporting to global consolidation—have increased significantly. At the same time, the choices for accounting and financial software have become much more complex. How do you begin to research, evaluate, and select the right software for your business? Download the 2015 Buyer's Guide to Accounting and Financial Software and discover: • Why most financial software systems hinder your ability to get good financial information • The six key questions you need to ask before considering a move to a cloud-based financial solution • Why the process for evaluating software is different for cloud solutions – and the seven SLA must-haves you should get in writing Get all the facts for a successful buying journey!

Online lead generation is a burgeoning industry and a crucial part of marketing a business on the Internet. However, because this is a relatively new industry, it can be challenging to get started and best practices are not well established. The purpose of this article is to explain what lead generation is and to educate businesses about best way to go about this process.

Old Log File analytics data was good – today's hosted on-demand Web analytics reporting is much better. What once was only understandable by IT personnel now has a place on the desktops of sales, marketing and business professionals. Read about the differences, and improvements, in analytics.

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Adaptive Planning is the worldwide leader in on-demand business performance management (BPM) solutions for companies and nonprofits of all sizes. Adaptive Planning's solutions allow finance and management teams to obtain real-time visibility into performance metrics, streamline financial planning and reporting, and drive better business decisions. By offering affordable annual subscriptions and rapid implementations, and by eliminating the need for new hardware and IT support, Adaptive Planning makes it easy to move beyond spreadsheet-based processes without the cost and complexity associated with traditional on-premise BPM applications.

As great as Cornerstone OnDemand is, anyone could use a little help solving more of their learning and talent management challenges. With the right partner, you can achieve greater business results with Cornerstone almost immediately.

Modern regulation demands connected thinking, leading-practice processes, optimal data management and insightful reporting – all of which makes the finance function the ideal catalyst for change. Read this report to find out: • how to structure a transformation plan and strategy • how to create the optimal team for transformation • what leading companies are doing to drive transformation through regulatory change.